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Theming and Appearance Customization / Re: Funky data from the %pv theming tag?

« Last post by iPodVT on January 07, 2025, 09:47:36 AM »

The breadth and depth of Rockbox - and also the Manual - and also the responsiveness of the dev team - never fails to astound me.

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

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Theming and Appearance Customization / Re: Funky data from the %pv theming tag?

« Last post by chris_s on January 07, 2025, 09:23:43 AM »

Why is the Volume setting menu ordered with the quietest, lowest value negative numbers at the top and the loudest, largest value positive numbers at the bottom?  Seems unintuitive to me, though I have fully gotten used to it by now.

I think that can actually be adjusted using the List Order setting (Settings -> General -> Display -> Scrolling...   

"When set to Ascending, numeric lists such as brightness and volume will be sorted with the smallest value at the top of the list and values increasing down the list. When set to Descending, the order is reversed – the largest value is sorted at the top and values will decrease down the list."

https://download.rockbox.org/daily/manual/rockbox-ipod6g/rockbox-buildch8.html#x15-1520008.5

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Theming and Appearance Customization / Re: Funky data from the %pv theming tag?

« Last post by iPodVT on January 07, 2025, 09:13:06 AM »

Ah yes, that's it.  My theme was aware of and compensating for the leading space, though I have no memory of it.  At the time I coded it I probably assumed that the leading space was intentional and put there for a reason that was beyond the very limited knowledge I had then.

I also now remember seeing the note for 384c35418a in Code - Recent Activity, but it had already slipped my mind by last night when I observed the problem with the volume display in my status bar so I didn't make the connection.

And, of course, this all raises a question I have wondered about for a long time:  Why is the Volume setting menu ordered with the quietest, lowest value negative numbers at the top and the loudest, largest value positive numbers at the bottom?  Seems unintuitive to me, though I have fully gotten used to it by now.

Thanks yet again.

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Theming and Appearance Customization / Re: SPAZZ theme

« Last post by chuck_lardo on January 07, 2025, 01:40:35 AM »

This is an unbelievably cool theme. It's great to see you really stretch your theme muscles, I think this is the most excited a theme has made me in ages! There's some really creative features in here, not even mentioning how fantastic your design style is for rockbox. I think the community is going to have a field day with this

Wow, ok. Thank you for the kind words.

Coming from someone who has pushed the theme engine far beyond our preconceived notions, it means a lot.

I truly hope this inspires writers, including yourself, to start a new theme project and release something we haven't seen yet.

For me, I have been dodging album art for too long. It's time to feature that 

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Theming and Appearance Customization / Re: Funky data from the %pv theming tag?

« Last post by chris_s on January 07, 2025, 01:22:27 AM »

384c35418a /  (2025-01-04) fixed a regression in the behavior of the pv tag that was introduced in 10facef (2021-04-09) where a leading space was inadvertently included for volumes >= 0

https://www.rockbox.org/tracker/task/13537

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Theming and Appearance Customization / Funky data from the %pv theming tag?

« Last post by iPodVT on January 07, 2025, 01:07:56 AM »

At some point after dev build fe78b07db6-241231 was posted (and not including that dev build), my theme seems to have started getting funky data from the %pv tag when the player's volume is greater than or equal to zero.  I'm seeing this on both ipodvideo and ipod6g.  For volumes zero through 9 nothing is getting displayed.  For volumes 10 through 12 on ipod6g only the second digit (0 for 10, 1 for 11, 2 for 12) is getting displayed.  The ipodvideo's volume apparently only goes up to 6.  I don't think my theme's code/syntax/spacing is at fault because all digits for volumes from -1 to -60 (and on to -90 on ipodvideo) are getting correctly displayed.

Did something change with %pv in dev builds subsequent to fe78b07db6-241231 on Dec 31 or later?

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Hardware / Re: IPod Photo (4th gen) problems -- errors when trying to use plugins or play music

« Last post by iPodVT on January 06, 2025, 11:07:10 PM »

The Rockbox Manual seems to indicate that on an iPod, the firmware is the file /.rockbox/rockbox.ipod.  If so, does "the Rockbox firmware" refer to just that file or are other components also implied?

My apologies to Dodo for distracting the topic away from his original questions and concerns.  I'll stick to that proper topic now.

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Hardware / Re: IPod Photo (4th gen) problems -- errors when trying to use plugins or play music

« Last post by iPodVT on January 06, 2025, 10:55:55 PM »

I don't have a 4th gen, but IIRC the bootloader is on the disk outside of the partition you'd be formatting.

And if you reformat the disk it doesn't reformat the entire disk?

Another confusion I've long wanted to resolve re the components of a Rockbox installation:  There's the bootloader and the /.rockbox directory.  Is there also a third component?  If so, by what name is it referred to?  And which component is "the firmware"?

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Hardware / Re: IPod Photo (4th gen) problems -- errors when trying to use plugins or play music

« Last post by saratoga on January 06, 2025, 10:49:48 PM »

I don't know how I could do this Reformatting the Ipod would wipe it then I would have to use Itunes to fix it. Unless there is some way that I don't know about.

Formatting doesn't affect the rockbox bootloader or apple firmware, so no need to restore with itunes, although you can do that if you want.

With the 4th Gen iPod Photo, isn't everything on the HDD, SD or SSD?  I thought that reformatting this model will require everything to be reinstalled.  In any case, if you use H2testw on the storage and/or restore with iTunes you will certainly have to resync all your music.

I don't have a 4th gen, but IIRC the bootloader is on the disk outside of the partition you'd be formatting.

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Hardware / Re: IPod Photo (4th gen) problems -- errors when trying to use plugins or play music

« Last post by iPodVT on January 06, 2025, 10:25:25 PM »

I don't know how I could do this Reformatting the Ipod would wipe it then I would have to use Itunes to fix it. Unless there is some way that I don't know about.

Formatting doesn't affect the rockbox bootloader or apple firmware, so no need to restore with itunes, although you can do that if you want.

With the 4th Gen iPod Photo, isn't everything on the HDD, SD or SSD?  I thought that reformatting this model will require everything to be reinstalled.  In any case, if you use H2testw on the storage and/or restore with iTunes you will certainly have to resync all your music.